Francesco Casella
Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
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Published in: Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Equation-Based Object-Oriented Modeling Languages and Tools; April 19; University of Nottingham; Nottingham; UK
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 84:6, p. 45-51
Published: 2013-03-27
ISBN: 978-91-7519-621-3 (print)
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
For several years now; most of the growth of computing power has been made possible by exploiting parallel CPUs on the same chip; unfortunately; state-of-the-art software tools for the simulation of declarative; objectoriented models still generate single-threaded simulation code; showing an increasingly disappointing performance. This paper presents a simple strategy for the efficient computation of the right-hand-side of the ordinary differential equations resulting from the causalization of objectoriented models; which is often the computational bottleneck of the executable simulation code. It is shown how this strategy can be particularly effective in the case of generalized physical networks; i.e.; system models built by the connection of components storing certain quantities and of components describing the flow of such quantities between them.
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